Spain’s Sicav Torrenova doubles assets in 12 months

March Gestión de Fondos’ Sicav Torrenova has doubled assets over the past year as European investors seek growth with security in a total return environment.

With the bond market wobbling in mid-year March Gestión de Fondos’ saw an influx of assets which pushed Torrenova well over the €1bn mark to reach €1.25bn by the end of 2013.

“With an aggressively customer focused mind-set, simple, transparent products based on its global equity skill-set and backed by Europe’s best capitalised bank, Banca March, the asset manager has UK and European expansion firmly in mind,” the firm said.

Using Torrenova to enhance and protect Spanish investor’s assets over the past 25 years (including those of the March family whose policy is to co-invest in March Gestión funds) March Gestión also said it now has its eyes firmly fixed on those UK investors who seek long term growth with lower average volatility in a highly transparent investment vehicle.

March Gestión CEO José Luis Jimenez (pictured) said that by targeting European CPI plus 2% Torrenova’s simple transparent bond/equity mix had shown all the hallmarks of a total return fund – one which had seen consistent growth while demonstrating defensive qualities. During the last 10 years average return has been 4.7% while volatility has been reduced to 2.56%. In 2013 the fund returned 6.2%,.

Jimenez said, “For those who seek greater certainty in a simply uncomplicated fund Torrenova is a straight forward, transparent global equities plus bond fund whose success has been driven by the stock picking and asset allocation skills of Juan Berberana – a manager with over 20 years’ experience – and the rest of the team at March Gestión.

“The fund also avoids the lack of clarity surrounding some well-known total return funds by avoiding complex financial instruments to manage returns and that, we believe, is valued by many investors.”

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